Blue Upon The Plains Of Abraham - Noodler's

[torstar]

God knows I don't need more blue inks. In fact I just packed away and banished 30 some-odd bottles that I rarely use to our storage room.

 

I really wanted to buy this ink if for no other reason than to support the idea of a Canada only ink. It's actually quite nice, and I think I'll get some use out of it.

 

Don't torture yerself too much for the sake of CanCon...

[torstar]

God knows I don't need more blue inks. In fact I just packed away and banished 30 some-odd bottles that I rarely use to our storage room.

 

I really wanted to buy this ink if for no other reason than to support the idea of a Canada only ink. It's actually quite nice, and I think I'll get some use out of it.

 

Don't torture yerself too much for the sake of CanCon...

[bemon]

 

Don't torture yerself too much for the sake of CanCon...

The word torture might be a bit of a stretch considering how little justification most of us need to pick up a fresh bottle of ink well use twice.

[torstar]

The word torture might be a bit of a stretch considering how little justification most of us need to pick up a fresh bottle of ink well use twice.

 

I will try to agonize to find the precise word describing the lengths Canadians go through to not hurt people's feelings....

 

So I had a lousy bottle of this stuff from the original run, then I dumped it and intended to use the bottle for other inks, but I lost that as well.

[bemon]

 

I will try to agonize to find the precise word describing the lengths Canadians go through to not hurt people's feelings....

 

So I had a lousy bottle of this stuff from the original run, then I dumped it and intended to use the bottle for other inks, but I lost that as well.

You misunderstand. We dont care about other peoples feelings, we just dont like getting drawn into time wasting arguments. After all, time is money. Agree to disagree is generally Canadian for f#$k your feelings, but Ive got stuff to do. So, agree to disagree. I like this ink.

[Cyber6]

You misunderstand. We dont care about other peoples feelings, we just dont like getting drawn into time wasting arguments. After all, time is money. Agree to disagree is generally Canadian for f#$k your feelings, but Ive got stuff to do. So, agree to disagree. I like this ink.

 

 

[torstar]

You misunderstand. We dont care about other peoples feelings, we just dont like getting drawn into time wasting arguments. After all, time is money. Agree to disagree is generally Canadian for f#$k your feelings, but Ive got stuff to do. So, agree to disagree. I like this ink.

 

The irony in our posts is high octane to represent Canada very well.

 

Telling myself I'm going to love an ink to precious bits and then forcing myself to say affirmations on how excellent it is counts as well.

[torstar]

[shrug]

[bemon]

God knows I don't need more blue inks. In fact I just packed away and banished 30 some-odd bottles that I rarely use to our storage room.

 

I really wanted to buy this ink if for no other reason than to support the idea of a Canada only ink. It's actually quite nice, and I think I'll get some use out of it.

Yeah, it's pretty much unusable. It runs so wet that any pen I put it in causes massive feathering and a far thicker line than I intended on any paper. Did I get a bad bottle? Because some of ya'll are commenting that it's a thick hard-starting ink.

 

It may behave better in a fine nibbed pen, but I'm not going to downsize to a fine just for one ink.

 

I've got it in my L2K right now but I'll drain it tonight. Before that I had it in a Vanishing Point. The ink gushed out so quickly that I'd emptied the converter after 4 pages of notes in my medium Leuchtturm notebook. My wife looked at the notes and asked "why did you use a marker and not one of your pens?"

[torstar]

Yeah, it's pretty much unusable. It runs so wet that any pen I put it in causes massive feathering and a far thicker line than I intended on any paper. Did I get a bad bottle? Because some of ya'll are commenting that it's a thick hard-starting ink.

 

It may behave better in a fine nibbed pen, but I'm not going to downsize to a fine just for one ink.

 

I've got it in my L2K right now but I'll drain it tonight. Before that I had it in a Vanishing Point. The ink gushed out so quickly that I'd emptied the converter after 4 pages of notes in my medium Leuchtturm notebook. My wife looked at the notes and asked "why did you use a marker and not one of your pens?"

 

 

It was a cute and sweet vanity project that failed big-time. Throw it out and don't look back, except to tell the story when this thread resurrects in another year.

[bemon]

 

 

It was a cute and sweet vanity project that failed big-time. Throw it out and don't look back, except to tell the story when this thread resurrects in another year.

Yup, into storage it goes. May hand it off to my sister who sometimes uses fountain pen ink in other art projects.

[Carrau]

This ink is now available at Goldspot Pens in the US (no affiliation).  Flow seems fine on Rhodia, Fritz Schimpf Feinpost, and on cheap printer paper-minimal feathering, minimal ghosting, and no bleedthrough on this bottle.

[Mongo]

I noticed that it's also now available at Goulet.

[The_Beginner]

3 hours ago, Mongo said:

I noticed that it's also now available at Goulet.

noodlers posted its now back in stock i think semi permanently 

[inkstainedruth]

@Mongo -- I actually contacted Goulet Pens because I was surprised to see it advertised in their most recent e-ad.  I had gotten a bottle of if a few years ago at Wonder Pens in Toronto, and thought that it was a Canadian exclusive.  But got email back this morning saying that it's now also available in the US.  
But I also noticed that their swatch/writing example showed it as more of a blue-purple.  Whereas the bottle I have is a blue-grey.  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Carrau]

2 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

But I also noticed that their swatch/writing example showed it as more of a blue-purple.  Whereas the bottle I have is a blue-grey.  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

This iteration doesn’t look blue-grey, and is less of a “blurple” than in Vis’ review.  It seems slightly “flat,” with no perceptible sheen.